Now, if you, like countless others have been using an Android phone for quite some time, you know that long-pressing the power button on your smartphone pops up the shutdown or restart options.

Once upon a time in tech, Android phones shipped with tactile, ribbed power buttons for convenient accessibility - then one day, they went extinct.

The Android power button is no longer the power button, but how do readers feel about this? Believe it or not, it's a hugely divisive topic.

Once, the power button on a smartphone turned the phone on and off, but an annoying trend is seeing the button repurposed for different duties.

The Android power button is among the strongest pieces of design Google has ever produced. It's merely one key tucked along the side of my mobile device. The power button does many things. I use it to ...

Smartphones might be hurtling towards a port-less, button-less future, but if there’s one button that remains a constant (for now), it is the humble power button. But what purpose it serves seems to ...

I can see the case for it — it lowers the power button on particularly large phones, making it easier to tap with your thumb — but I find that it places the volume buttons too high up for comfort.

If your power button breaks down, it can be extremely frustrating each time you want to power up or power down. Here are a few tips that can help you restart an Android phone without a power ...